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29th October 2009
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Our Mission
Becoming the worlds trusted source for published and public data.
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The Data Tank
Our Mission
Becoming the worlds trusted source for published and public data.
The Data Tank

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The Data Tank
Our Mission
Becoming the worlds trusted source for published and public data.
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Expensive – Difficult – Boring
Hans Rosling at TED (movie)
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Expensive – Difficult – Boring
“I think all of these barriers to data
are holding back innovation at a
scale that few people realize.”
Bret Taylor
(Founder at
FriendFeed)
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Expensive – Difficult – Boring
“Sure, make a beautiful website, but
first, give us – all of us – the
unadulterated data. We have to ask
for raw data now.”
Tim Berners-Lee
(Inventor of the
World Wide
Web)
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Build a community around your data
Small Case Study: NMBS
Mac OS X widget Dockyard Realtime i-Speech Traininfo
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Build a community around your data
Small Case Study: NMBS
Mac OS X widget Dockyard Realtime i-Speech Traininfo
“ Werkte
aanvankelijk, tot
hun dienstregeling
werd uitgebreid
naar bus- en andere
diensten, waardoor
ze nooit is
gereleased. . . ”
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Build a community around your data
Small Case Study: NMBS
Mac OS X widget Dockyard Realtime i-Speech Traininfo
Never released
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Build a community around your data
Small Case Study: NMBS
Mac OS X widget Dockyard Realtime i-Speech Traininfo
“ De achterzijde
van RealTime is net
noodgedwongen een
beetje gewijzigd
omdat Infrabel een
nieuwe versie van
RailTime heeft
gelanceerd. ”
Never released
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Build a community around your data
Small Case Study: NMBS
Mac OS X widget Dockyard Realtime i-Speech Traininfo
Never released
Unreliable
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Build a community around your data
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Mac OS X widget Dockyard Realtime i-Speech Traininfo
www.railtime.be/
website/
DisclaimerNL.htm
Never released
Unreliable
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Small Case Study: NMBS
Mac OS X widget Dockyard Realtime i-Speech Traininfo
Never released Legal issues
Unreliable
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Chicken-or-the-Egg
The Data Tank is bringing together hungry data consumers. . .
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Chicken-or-the-Egg
. . . to convince data owners into publishing.
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There is a community for your data out there!
NMBS
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There is a community for your data out there!
De Lijn
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Market Size
Public Sector: HUGE!
Art. 7. §1. De instanties die authentieke
gegevensbronnen beheren overeenkomstig
artikel 4, §1, of de entiteiten, vermeld in artikel
4, §3, stellen de metagegevens van de
authentieke gegevensbronnen kosteloos en
publiekelijk open [. . . ]. — Vlaams decreet
van 18 juli 2008
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Market Size
Private Sector: HUGE!
“Gartner Says Companies Should Implement
Information Access Technologies, Rather
Than Buying More Storage, to Man age Old
Corporate Data.” — 7th August 2008
“Gartner Recommends Key Cost-Cutting
Tactics in Data Management and
Integration.” — 10th March 2008
“Gartner Says Organisations Must Establish
Data Stewardship Roles to Improve Data
Quality.” — 22nd January 2008
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Business Model
Direct Revenue Model
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Business Model
What’s in it for the Data Owner?
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Business Model
What’s in it for the Data Consumer?
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Business Model
What’s in it for the Client?

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Underlying Magic
Modern Rising Trends Open Source
Technologies
Free Software
Cloud Computing
Ruby on Rails
Amazon Web Services Web Database Affero GPL license
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Competition
Users Authoritative
Source: -
DBPedia CrunchBase data.gov
FreeBase
Niche Broad
Content: -
Suikermuseum Google Maps data.gov
VTi
Hard Easy
Consumption: -
data.gov FreeBase Google Maps
DBpedia
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Team
Tom Coen
Engineering PhD from KULeuven
Co-founded Dsquare NC (spin-off company of KULeuven
focused on data mining in process industry)
Started INDUCT (control for machinery)
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Team
Lorin Parys
Lawyer at Latham &
Watkins in New York
Founder and President of
FlandersDC (the Flemish
organization for
entrepreneurial creativity)
COO of UPlace
(international real estate
business)
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Team
Bart Van Loon
Master in Computer
Science from KULeuven
Co-founded Villa Vespa
(beautifully renovated
Vespas)
Co-founder and Managing
Partner of Zeropoint.IT
(managed IT outsourcing
to Pakistan)
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Let’s connect:
Bart Van Loon
(+32) 472/94.14.34
bart@thedatatank.com
Tom Coen
(+32) 497/26.20.63
tom@thedatatank.com
Thank you!
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